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As Australia's cities and towns mature (remember they are less than 250 years old), the early history and later development will inevitably conflict with modern ideas of housing, town planning, design and traffic and in addition, bush and tree preservation, creek and river protection, parkland and sports and other recreation uses ... the list is potentially endless.

But these are not "new" issues and the conflicts are not new either ... they are the inevitable outcome of change. Increasingly however, the conflicts have become more adversarial. Some might have considered that the then-notorious "green bans" in Sydney, primarily supported by local residents and the Builders Laborers Federation, are no longer necessary, that local and state planning authorities now ensure that these changes take place in a manner which meets the needs of most people.

They do ... until development turns up in your area! In Melbourne, the issue has been contested by Save Our Suburbs Inc. SOS has been so successful that it has spread to other cities and towns. Brisbane residents have continued to defend or improve their areas without an "umbrella group" as each development was proposed. The result is a pattern of development which increases the conflict and decreases the pleasure and certainty many people value in living in the suburbs, particularly the older inner and middle ring of suburbs.

Many people are aware of road campaign groups such as Citizens Against Route Twenty CART, New Ways, Not Freeways, the Airport Motorway through the inner north and Premier Goss's proposed Gold Coast Motorway and the "dead koalas". Of course not all such campaigns are successful, and even when they are, governments have a habit of "forgetting".

With Brisbane residents (and similar stories are passed on from elsewhere) under attack again, it is clear there is a need for an understanding of the range of issues and problems confronting residents and a means of changing what appears to be deliberate generic attack on the suburbs and the people who live in them. It does not have to be that way!

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